Colonial+America

Colonial America - Taxation, Slavery, and WAR!

Read the following document on Crocodocs (www.crocodoc.com):

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The Navigation Acts:

As you read about the Navigation Acts, complete the following graphic organizer:



Watch the following clip on the Navigation Acts. Compare it with what you know about the Navigation Acts. media type="file" key="The Navigation Acts Music Video for Social Studies! [www.keepvid.com].flv" align="center" width="360" height="270"

**Be the Critic!!!**Did these students get their facts correct? Where would you improve their work? Why?

**Slavery in America**Watch the following video. Summarize the main idea, and add some CCQ's - you may need to review it several times to get the big idea. media type="file" key="colonial slave plantations [www.keepvid.com].flv" align="center" width="360" height="270"

Once you're done watching this video, explain the Main Idea in your virtual notebook. Add a good CCQ as well.Open up a new tab or window and using a search engine of your choice, look up "Triangular Trade" and **explain that term in your own words.** If you'd rather you can login in to the online textbook and loo it up on pages 77-81. Login: uhistory110, PW: u4p4jPair/Share your answers with a classmate and MAKE CHANGES. How you improve your work is how you'll be graded today.

DO NOW: If your last name begins with A-J, read pages 78-79 (Northern Colonial Economy) **OR** if your last name begins with K-Z read pages 80-81 (Southern Colonial Economy) and make notes, CCQ's and a Main Idea on your assigned section.

You will have about 10 minutes to complete this. It must be silent during this time so that others can read and get their work done.

Remember CCQ's are YOUR THOUGHTS. You need to make sure you not only share your thought, but why you had that thought.

Find someone (not necessarily the person next to you!) who worked on the same section and edit and revise your work so that it is **as accurate as you think you can make it** based upon your reading.

When Mr. Hurley prompts (tells) you to do so, go find someone who had a different section and complete your notes by filling out the Main Idea of the section you did not complete. In addition make an insightful CCQ about the other person's notes.

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Today we'll be creating slideshows on the triangular trade and examining the root causes of slavery in the colonies.

To create a slideshow, begin by going to www.slide.com

Follow along with Mr. Hurley as he takes you through how to make a slideshow.

You will then need to find images to put in your slideshow - here's your task:

//**Why do you think colonists felt the need to use slave labor? How would you convince someone who is a slave owner to give up their slaves? Remember many people who owned slaves did not like the practice, but felt like they HAD to have slaves...how do you convince them otherwise?**//

Once you have completed your slideshow, explain why you chose the images you chose to answer the questions above.

Open the following document, by Olaudah Equiano



Mark up the document and CCQ it. Then upload those into your virtual notebook.

Summarize the main idea under your upload.

Now Google "Olaudah Equiano" - and explain why you think he is or is not a good representative for the //Abolition movement// Be sure to __vett__ whatever website you use as the basis for your response, as well as citing that website in your virtual notebooks.

**French and Indian War:**
Today you will be examining the causes and effects of the French and Indian War.

To begin, you should have used an I See/It Means template to identify the picture on the front board, replicated below:



Pair/Share your answers with a partner.

Who is this man?

Today for the remainder of class your job is going to be to create a SLIDESHOW using www.slide.com and a WORDLE using www.wordle.net to illustrate the impact of the French and Indian War on North America.

Using the following websites as a guide and the primary source of your research, come up with visuals to display what happened in the war and how it had both positive and negative impacts on the North American Colonies.

@http://www.wqed.org/tv/specials/the-war-that-made-america/index_21.php

@http://www.wqed.org/tv/specials/the-war-that-made-america/index_37.php

@http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_and_Indian_War

Here is your assignment, in plain English:

1) Research the **//French and Indian War//** using the websites above (and en.wikipedia.org as long as you verify the information!, taking notes on how it impacts North America, and CCQ'ing your thoughts about this war (I disagree with..., I agree with..., I think that seems foolish..., and explain why you think that!)

2) Complete the following Graphic Organizer:

3) Make a list of ways that the French and Indian War was a positive event for the North American colonies, and another list of reasons it was a negative event for the North American colonies.

4) Using both slide.com and wordle.net use words and visuals to summarize your lists and notes from above. Your task is to both show that you understand the impact of the French and Indian War on American colonists, as well as how to incorporate Web 2.0 technology (like slide and wordle) as tools for illustrating what you know.

5) Creativity counts, and all of the work above should be placed in your virtual notebook, on a page titled "Colonial America" if you do not have it yet.

@http://www.brycchancarey.com/equiano/nativity.htm